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U.S. Senator Charles Grassley held a conference call with Iowa reporters on Tuesday afternoon—just over a day after visiting the Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Grundy Center—and bemoaned what he saw as a double standard in the way Republican and Democratic presidents are evaluated.

Twelve years in, Pat Grassley still gets that old time feeling when he enters the chambers of the statehouse for the opening of a new legislative session, and throughout this go round, he’ll have no shortage of work to do.
“I tell everybody that it’s kind of like...

In a series of tweets on Thursday, State Representative Pat Grassley of New Hartford expressed concern about a plan that will provide almost $20 million in state incentives to tech giant Apple for a new data center in Waukee. He went on, however, to push for tax code reforms that would render such perks less necessary in the future.
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Four months ago, Tracy Freese ascended to the rank of chairwoman with the Grundy County Democratic Party, and this week, she formally announced that she’ll be running for the Iowa Senate District 25 seat in 2018 and likely challenging Majority Leader Bill Dix (R-Shell Rock) amidst calls for his resignation over the handling of a sexual...

Will Pat Grassley be Iowa’s next Secretary of Agriculture? A lot of people seem to think so.
The Republican State Representative, whose district includes southern Butler, northern Hardin and all of Grundy County, is the presumptive favorite to move into the role if current...

The fate of the Affordable Care Act and Critical Access Hospitals dominated the discussion when U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) visited the Grundy County Memorial Hospital to meet with executives, board members and local officials last Wednesday morning.
“A lot of our...